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In this text, Judge Samuel Sewall of Massachusetts Bay refuted four arguments supporting slavery, utilizing the Bible in his religious argument against enslavement of Africans.

These are two different advertisements describing people who had escaped from slavery. They demonstrate the different treatment and valuation of enslaved people.

This is an image of an advertisement for a slaver's auction. It describes the enslaved people available for purchase.

This is an antislavery poem by John Greenleaf Whittier on a broadside with an accompanying woodcut image.

This is an excerpt from a speech by Frederick Douglass.

This is a Democratic campaign document discussing the South’s monetary stakes.

A map of the United States with shading to indicate slave states, free states and territories, with details such as the states’ representation in Congress and their number of enslaved people.

The nameplate includes three distinct pictures—left, center and right—and a banner in addition to the title of the newspaper. The pictures emphasize the humanity of enslaved persons and the injustice of slavery yet the hope for emancipation. The nameplate relies on Christian themes to encourage the abolition of slavery.